Eschatology
Transcending the ‘Second-Coming’ Charade
It’s a strategic mistake – IMO – to pander to the charade of popular end-time views that perpetuate false doctrines and traditions of men by employing non-scriptural terms and attached unscriptural concepts. As a result, the great eschatological debate has become an entrenched stalemate. Preterist Objection (from FB post): “You can call it…
READ MORE →What Counts as a Coming of Jesus?
The coming of Jesus is a much more relevant, vital, and greater reality than most of us have been led to believe. Therefore, let’s define what we mean. . . . My working definition for “a coming of Jesus” is this—It’s a personal and bodily intervention and/or manifestation of Jesus into the life…
READ MORE →Eusebius’ Three OT Comings of Jesus
Ever wonder why Jesus’ birth and earthly life is never called his “first coming” in Scripture? Because it wasn’t. Eusebius, a 4th-century Christian leader and writer who is often called “the father of Church history,” cited three Old Testament comings of Christ, Whom he refers to as the “second Lord after the Father”…
READ MORE →It Can’t Be Done!—Oh?
“How do you harmonize the literal future understanding of fulfillment with past figurative fulfillment? a FB poster asked this past week on a discussion forum. “It can’t be done . . . two opposites . . .” he insisted. To which I responded, “I’ve done it. And proved it at the highest level…
READ MORE →Just the FACTS
“You STILL haven’t addressed the FACTS,” a duet of hostile critics so accused me on FB last week. “The informal ‘debates’ I’ve had with him [Noe] over the years have been wastes of time.” “Still the liberal you always were Noe, simply trying to name call instead of addressing the FACTS.” “C’mon,…
READ MORE →An Uncertain Sound
Surely . . . the Church lacks a unified voice and is trumpeting an “uncertain sound” in the area of eschatology. Consequently, “who shall prepare himself for the battle?” (1 Cor. 14:8). But in the wise words of John Warwick Montgomery, “the search for truth can never be limited to the categories of a…
READ MORE →Having Vs. Hoping?
Here’s the essence of my message preached at a Pentecostal church in Southern Indiana this past Sunday morning. Most of you would agree that God is good, although that singular statement is an oversimplification. What you may not agree upon is that our faith is a lot “gooder” than we’ve been led to…
READ MORE →Opening Lines from My New Book
Time and again, over and over, for nineteen centuries and counting, the Church has been made to look like a joke in the eyes of the world as predictions of Christ’s Second Coming or Return and other related end-time events have supposedly come and gone without fulfillment. Adding to this humiliation is the reality that…
READ MORE →Temple Turmoil–Bringing Back Animal Sacrifices?
Ezekiel’s future-coming-temple prophecy and its resumption of animal sacrifices, which are described in magnificent detail and with precise specifications in his chapters 40-46, has divided the Church for almost two centuries and counting. This prophecy is termed “difficult” and “not easy to read and interpret” by many commentators. Two conflicting views contest its…
READ MORE →My Next Book
Just sent my next book to the printer. It’s titled — “Unraveling the End: A balanced scholarly synthesis of four competing and conflicting end-time views.” Should have books in about three weeks. But here’s the first review: “A terrific and needed read . . . extremely interesting. . . . Noe offers a detailed and…
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